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UI Design for Artists

You getting a bit tired of explaining over and over to artists the specifications for what iPhone applications need for artwork and pointing them at helper files and goodies? Yeah, us too. But these great people actually went to the trouble of collecting info to get past all the common artist questions in one place:

iPhone Guidelines And Resources For Artists

Covers device specs, icon specs for app and tab bar, fonts, and layout helpers, with links to various helpful resources overlapping a good bit with the ones we’d previous mentioned in the links above. Excellent to have it all in one place to send a link to for people who’d rather ask you than use Google!

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AUG
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Categories: iPhone, Programming

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UI Design Patterns

If you’ve got anything to do with designing iPhone interfaces — on paper or not — do not miss this post over at the new to us but worthwhile looking Flyosity blog about the advantages and disadvantages of different types of conventional iPhone application view organization

These three main interaction concepts correspond to three different types of View Controllers: Navigation Controllers, Tab Bar Controllers, Modal View Controllers and Table View Controllers respectfully. These are the building blocks for crafting iPhone applications.

and designing custom interfaces as well, with several paradigms of each type. Nothing overly surprising, but a nicely crafted overview, and the custom examples chosen are particularly interesting.

h/t: Daring Fireball!

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JUL
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Categories: iPhone, Programming

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Vector UI design

Now this has some excellent potential for improving our work with designers: the charming people over at Mercury Intermedia have released a set of iPhone UI vector elements for your Illustrator-using pleasure!

Rather than cry over the lack of good vector elements, we took it upon ourselves to recreate a large portion of the iPhone’s UI elements so we would have them available for future projects. Obviously, we aren’t telling you all of this just to wave it in your face and tell you we have fancy tools that you don’t. Because we care so much about our fellow iPhone developers, we are making our vector files available to you today. (I think I just made myself throw up a little.)

And people say we have attitude. Ha! This Rusty fellow seems like he’d be excellent company indeed for a drink or twenty. But yes, the file is well worth the download. Also note references to

iPhone GUI PSD (Photoshop)

Ultimate iPhone Stencil (OmniGraffle)

Now, if someone would write an importer to transmogrify designer-created Illustrator files directly into .xib files, then we’d really have something going…

h/t: WebResourcesDepot!

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JUN
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Categories: iPhone

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iPhone GUI PSD

Here’s something useful for your iPhone presentation mockup needs: a layered Photoshop file with a comprehensive set of assets:

Over the past few months we’ve had to create a few iPhone mock ups for presentations. The problem we’ve encountered is the lack of resources to help us design something efficiently. Up until now we’ve used a nice PSD from 320480.com but we still found ourselves having to build out additional assets or heavily modifying bitmap based buttons and widgets.

Download and enjoy!

h/t: Leif!

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AUG
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Categories: iPhone

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